E-Flora BC: Electronic Atlas of the Flora of British Columbia

General:
Perennial herb from a taproot; stems erect, branched, glabrous or somewhat woolly or cobwebby, 0.1-1.2 m tall.

Leaves:
Basal leaves oblanceolate or narrowly elliptic, long-stalked, toothed or shallowly lobed to entire, hairy above and below, the blade up to 15 cm long and 3 cm wide; stem leaves reduced and becoming unstalked upward.

Flowers:
Heads discoid, few to several, solitary at the ends of erect branches; disk flowers rose to purple, rarely white, the marginal ones enlarged and conspicuous; involucres 15-20 mm tall, nearly as wide; involucral bracts with enlarged, broad, rounded, papery, tattered, tan to dark brown appendages at the tips, these wider than the bracts.

Fruits:
Achenes light brown with a few lighter longitudinal lines, 3-3.5 mm long; pappus lacking.